Peace is definitely underrated

Unpopular opinion Compared to the clusterfuck that westerners (on both sides of the Atlantic) are living in these days, after almost a month there, China seemed to me like an exotic bubble of peace, order, education, and progress. But hey, the Chinese Communist Party is so mean... bla bla bla... Yeah, they aren't free in the western sense of the word; they are pretty conformist, but they are generally peaceful, safe, productive, prosperous, and better-mannered. Are we? Not anymore. Are we still free, at least? Have we ever really been free? I have my huge reservations

Ho appena realizzato che, almeno in termini evoluzionistisci, grazie all'uomo, le specie di maggior successo sono quelle che ci mangiamo quotidianamente. Controintuitivamente essere un alimento amato dagli umani aumenta per mucche e polli nel loro insieme le chances di sopravvivenza anziché ridurle.

9/11 It's the dancing Israelis anniversary all over again. That day is marked in many minds as the beginning of the end of a 'peaceful era', that day the post-1945/post-1989 American World Order started to crumble. Twenty-four years later, it rests definitively in pieces. A Personal Reminiscence 9/11 is my first clear memory of a global event I witnessed in person, albeit from afar. I was an insecure thirteen-year-old snowflake, just back from a late summer tennis course that I despised. I switched on the TV to watch my favorite cartoons, only to see the two towers in flames on every channel I turned to. I was in shock. I stared at the TV for minutes, astonished and speechless. Then suddenly, my parents called me, scared, asking how I was and where I was, trying to explain what was happening. They thought a world conflict was about to break out and couldn’t hide their fears from me. The ironies of the dates...

I preferred Palpatine's speech in Coruscant At least he had a better dress code. View quoted note →

In less than 24 h.. - Israel strike neutral Qatar to derail any Gaza ceasefire. - Another Israel terrorist attack against the peaceful ProPal Flotilla - Russian drones downed on Polish/Belarussian Airspace (a perfect pretext for NATO/EU direct involvement) - Banksy artwork deleted because of orwellian censorship on free speech and right to protest in Airstrip One - Nepal's government historical building burned down to the ground by an angry crowd of protestors. What a beautiful world to live in.. They said to touch grass, but touching grass everyday don't stop the foolishness/evilness of mankind. It's like saying, they are killing my sister, but look at those beautiful daffodils below your elbow.. No #GM, No optimism today, sorry.

Art is a thought crime in Airstrip One View quoted note →

The contrapasso. It's curious that the piratical and exceedingly ambitious Qatari kingdom, after years of struggling and scheming to become the epicenter of Middle Eastern and international intrigues, self proclaimed, half Switzerland half caliphate of secret diplomacy, behaving shamelessly like a tightrope walker with a qaedist twist, aspiring dirty land of unspeakable meetings between bloodthirsty arch-enemies, eventually ends up being attacked (and humiliated with a barrage of bombs) by both supreme duelists of the regional chessboard within just a few months. History certainly does not lack sarcasm.

Il contrappasso. Curioso che il piratesco è oltremodo ambizioso regno qatariota, dopo un pluriennale affannarsi e trigare per farsi epicentro degli intrighi mediorientali e internazionali, aspirante svizzera della diplomazia segreta in salsa qaedista, spregiudicato equilibrista di incontri indicibili tra arcinemici sanguinari, finisca poi in pochi mesi per essere attaccato (e umiliato a suon di bombe) da entrambi i supremi duellanti dello scacchiere regionale. Alla storia non manca certo il sarcasmo.